<DIV>Paul,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>When someone gains the knowledge of knowing good from bad, or from doing God's will or Satan's will, they become the victims of evil temptation. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Fish, birds, insects, and all animals are not judged, because they cannot discern evil from good, they cannot choose between God and Satan. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>When Eve "bit the apple" she doomed humans to always having to choose between the right and wrong thing to do, she doomed many to hell because no man can resist temptation. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">heirdoug@netscape.net wrote:<BR>> Let me first address your "imperative of blessing".<BR>><BR>> Keely, When God told Adam and
Eve to eat of every tree in the garden <BR>> but not to eat the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, was this an <BR>> imperative of blessing or a command to follow?<BR>> <BR><BR>I know I'm stepping on your conversation, but this reminded me of <BR>something. <BR><BR>When a powerful entity demands that you should, in essence, avoid <BR>learning how to distinguish evil from good shouldn't you be frightened <BR>and run away screaming? What possible motive could this being have for <BR>not wanting you to know evil from good? How could you possibly live a <BR>life of good if you never learned the difference? It would be like <BR>living a life avoiding the color yellow when you could only distinguish <BR>shades of gray. How could you even know that disobeying a command from <BR>this being fell into the "evil" category? From the perspective of a few <BR>thousand years later I'm still not convinced of that. You could only <BR>pull this one over on a couple of people
that didn't know the difference.<BR><BR>It all sounds horribly suspicious to me. I understand that the gnostics <BR>believed that the god of the Old Testament was evil. I'm beginning to <BR>wonder if they were right.<BR><BR>Paul<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net <BR>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>=======================================================<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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